Acts 26:18

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

to open their eyes that they myght turne from darcknes vnto lyght and from the power of Satan vnto God that they maye receave forgevenes of synnes and inheritauce amonge the which are sanctified by fayth in me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀνοῖξαι ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν, ἐπιστρέψαι ἀπὸ σκότους εἰς φῶς, καὶ τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ Σατανᾶ ἐπὶ τὸν Θεόν, τοῦ λαβεῖν αὐτοὺς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν, καὶ κλῆρον ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις πίστει τῇ εἰς ἐμέ.

Transliteration

To anoixai ophthalmous of them, to epistrepsai from skotous to phōs, and the exousias of the Satana to the Theon, of the to labein them aphesin hamartiōn, and klēron among those having been hēgiasmenois by pistei in me.

Grammar Details

• *anoixai*: aorist active infinitive - to open
• *ophthalmous*: accusative, masculine, plural - eyes
• *epistrepsai*: aorist active infinitive - to turn
• *skotous*: genitive, neuter, singular - darkness
• *phōs*: accusative, neuter, singular - light
• *exousias*: genitive, feminine, singular - authority/power
• *Satana*: genitive, masculine, singular - Satan
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
• *labein*: aorist active infinitive - to receive
• *aphesin*: accusative, feminine, singular - forgiveness
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - sins
• *klēron*: accusative, masculine, singular - inheritance/portion
• *hēgiasmenois*: perfect passive participle, dative, masculine, plural - having been sanctified
• *pistei*: dative, feminine, singular - faith

Word Meanings

• *anoixai*: to open/to unlock
• *ophthalmous*: eyes/sight
• *epistrepsai*: to turn/to convert/to return
• *skotous*: darkness/gloom
• *phōs*: light/radiance
• *exousias*: authority/power/dominion
• *labein*: to receive/to take/to obtain
• *aphesin*: forgiveness/remission/release
• *hamartiōn*: sins/wrongdoings
• *klēron*: inheritance/portion/lot
• *hēgiasmenois*: having been sanctified/consecrated/made holy
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:32 : 32 And now brethren I comende you to God and to the worde of his grace which is able to bylde further and to geve you an inheritaunce amoge all them which are sanctified.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosyn generacion a royall presthod an holy nacio and a peculiar people that ye shuld shewe the vertues of him that called you out of darknes into hys marvelous light
• Eph 1:18 : 18 and lighten the eyes of youre myndes yt ye myght knowe what that hope is where vnto he hath called you and what the riches of his glorious inheritaunce is apon the sainctes
• Eph 5:8 : 8 Ye were once dercknes but are now light in the Lorde. Walke as chyldren of light.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For it is God that commauded the light to shyne out of darcknes which hath shyned in oure hertes for to geve the light of the knowledge of the glorie of God in the face of Iesus Christ.
• Acts 2:38 : 38 Peter sayde vnto them: repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for the remission of synnes and ye shall receave the gyfte of the holy goost.
• John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them sayinge: I am the light of the worlde. He that foloweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe.
• Luke 1:79 : 79 To geve light to the that sate in darcknes and in shadowe of deth and to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace.
• Acts 5:31 : 31 Him hath god lifte vp with his right hand to be a ruler and a savioure for to geve repetauce to Israell and forgevenes of synnes.
• Acts 20:21 : 21 witnessinge bothe to the Iewes and also to the Grekes the repentaunce toward God and faith towarde oure Lorde Iesu.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom ye god of this worlde hath blynded the myndes of them which beleve not lest the light of ye glorious gospell of Christ which is the ymage of god shuld shyne vnto them.
• Col 1:12-14 : 12 gevynge thankes vnto the father which hath made vs mete to be part takers of the enheritaunce of sainctes in light. 13 Which hath delivered vs from the power of dercknes and hath translated vs in to the kyngdome of his dere sone 14 in whom we have redempcion thurow his bloud that is to saye the forgevenes of sinnes
• 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 But ye brethre are not in darcknes that yt daye shuld come on you as it were a thefe. 5 Ye are all the childre of light and the children of ye daye. We are not of ye nyght nether of darcknes. 6 Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but let vs watch and be sober. 7 For they that slepe slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken are dronken in the nyght. 8 But let vs which are of the daye be sober armed with the brest plate of fayth and love and with hope of salvacio as an helmet.
• 2 Cor 6:14 : 14 Set youreselues therfore at large and beare not a straugers yoke wyth the vnbelevers. For what fellishippe hath rightewesnes with vnrightewesnes? What company hath light wt darcknes?
• 1 John 1:9 : 9 Yf we knowledge oure synnes he is faythfull and iust to forgeve vs oure synnes and to clense vs from all vnrightewesnes.
• 1 John 2:8-9 : 8 The olde comaundement is the worde which ye hearde from the begynnynge. Agayne a newe comaundement I write vnto you a thynge that is true in him and also in you: for the darknes is past and the true lyght now shyneth. 9 He that sayth how that he is in the light and yet hateth his brother is in darknes even vntyll this tyme.
• 1 John 3:8 : 8 He that comitteth synne is of the devill: for the devyll synneth sence the begynnynge. For this purpose appered the sonne of god to lowse the workes of the devill.
• Eph 4:18 : 18 blynded in their vnderstondynge beynge straungers from the lyfe which is in god thorow the ignorancy that is in them because of the blyndnes of their hertes:
• Luke 1:77 : 77 And to geve knowlege of salvacion vnto his people for the remission of synnes:
• Acts 15:9 : 9 and he put no difference bitwene them and vs but with fayth purified their hertes.
• Luke 24:47 : 47 and that repentaunce and remission of synnes shuld be preached in his name amonge all nacions and must beginne at Ierusalem.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We knowe that we are of god and that the worlde is altogedder set on wickednes.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 ¶ Iudas the servaunt of Iesus Christ the brother of Iames. To them which are cal and sanctified in god the father and preserved in Iesu Christ.
• Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he toke the drago that olde serpet which is the devyll and Satanas and he bounde him a thousand yeares: 3 and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and he bounde him and set a seale on him yt he shuld desceaue the people no moare tyll the.M. yeares were fulfilled. And after yt he muste be loosed for a litell season.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 And there shall entre into it none vnclene thynge: nether what soever worketh abhominacion: or maketh lyes: but they only which are wrytten in the lambes boke of lyfe.
• 1 John 2:12 : 12 Babes I write vnto you how that youre synnes are forgeven you for his names sake.
• 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were as shepe goinge astraye: but are now returned vnto ye shepheerd and bisshoppe of youre soules.
• Heb 10:14 : 14 For with one offerynge hath he made parfecte for ever them yt are sanctified.
• Heb 11:6 : 6 but with out fayth it is vnpossible to please him. For he that commeth to God must beleve that God is and that he is a rewarder of them that seke him.
• Jas 2:5 : 5 Harken my deare beloved brethren. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde which are ryche in fayth and heyres of the kyngdom which he promysed to them that love him?
• 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to enioye an inheritaunce immortall and vndefiled and that purifieth not reserved in heven for you
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I am crucified with Christ. I live verely: yet now not I but Christ liveth in me. For ye lyfe which I now live in ye flesshe I live by the fayth of ye sonne of God which loved me and gave him selne for me.
• Gal 3:2 : 2 This only wolde I learne of you: receaved ye the sprete by the dedes of ye lawe or els by preachinge of ye faith?
• Gal 3:14 : 14 that the blessynge of Abraham might come on the getyls thorow Iesus Christ and that we might receave the promes of the sprete thorow fayth.
• Eph 1:7 : 7 By whom we have redemption thorow his bloude euen the forgevenes of synnes accordynge to the riches of his grace
• Eph 1:11 : 11 that is to saye in him in whom we are made heyres and were therto predestinate accordynge to the purpose of him which worketh all thinges after the purpose of his awne will:
• Eph 1:14 : 14 which is the ernest of oure inheritaunce to redeme the purchased possession and that vnto the laude of his glory.
• 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 that they maye come to the selves agayne out of the snare of the devyll which are now taken of him at his will.
• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 not of ye dedes of rightewesnes which we wrought but of his mercie he saved vs by ye foutayne of the newe birth and with the renuynge of the holy goos 6 which he shed on vs aboundantly thorow Iesus Christ oure saveoure
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 For as moche then as the children were parte takers of flesshe and bloud he also him silfe lyke wyse toke parte with them for to put doune thorow deth him that had lordshippe over deeth that is to saye the devyll 15 and yt he myght delyver the which thorow feare of deeth were all their lyfetyme in dauger of bondage.
• Heb 9:15 : 15 And for this cause is he the mediator of ye newe testament that thorow deeth which chaunsed for the redempcion of those transgressions that were in ye fyrst testamet) they which were called myght receave the promes of eternall inheritaunce.
• Heb 10:10 : 10 By the which will we are sanctified by the offeringe of the body of Iesu Christe once for all.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherfore he sayth: awake thou that slepest and stond vp from deeth and Christ shall geve the light.
• Eph 2:8 : 8 For by grace are ye made safe thorowe fayth and that not of youre selves. For it is the gyfte of God
• John 1:4-9 : 4 In it was lyfe and the lyfe was ye lyght of men 5 and the lyght shyneth in the darcknes but the darcknes comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God whose name was Iohn. 7 The same cam as a witnes to beare witnes of the lyght that all men through him myght beleve. 8 He was not that lyght: but to beare witnes of the lyght. 9 That was a true lyght which lyghteth all men that come into the worlde.
• John 3:19 : 19 And this is the condempnacion: that light is come into the worlde and the me loved darcknes more then light because their dedes were evill.
• John 4:10 : 10 Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfte of God and who it is that sayeth to the geve me drynke thou woldest have axed of him and he wolde have geven the water of lyfe.
• John 4:14 : 14 But whosoever shall drinke of ye water yt I shall geve him shall never be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geve him shalbe in him a well of water springinge vp in to everlastinge lyfe.
• John 7:38-39 : 38 He that beleveth on me as sayeth the scripture out of his belly shall flowe ryvers of water of lyfe. 39 This spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him shuld receave. For the holy goost was not yet there because that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.
• Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to lighten the gentyls and the glory of thy people Israel.
• Luke 4:18 : 18 The sprete of the LORde vpon me because he hath annoynted me: to preache ye gospell to ye poore he hath sent me: and to heale the broken harted: to preache delyverauce to the captive and sight to the blinde and frely to set at lyberte them that are brused
• Luke 11:21-22 : 21 When a stronge man armed watcheth his housse: yt he possesseth is in peace. 22 But when a stronger then he cometh vpo him and overcometh him: he taketh from him his harnes wherin he trusted and devideth his gooddes.
• Luke 24:45 : 45 Then openned he their wyttes that they myght vnderstond the scriptures
• John 9:5 : 5 As longe as I am in the worlde I am the lyght of the worlde.
• John 9:39 : 39 Iesus sayde: I am come vnto iudgement into this worlde: that they which se not myght se and they which se myght be made blynde.
• John 12:35-36 : 35 Then Iesus sayde vnto them: yet a lytell whyle is the light wt you. Walke whill ye have light lest the darcknes come on you. He that walketh in the darke wotteth not whither he goeth. 36 Whyll ye have light beleve on the light that ye maye be the chyldren of light. These thinges spake Iesus and departed and hyd him silfe fro them.
• John 17:17 : 17 Sanctify the wt thy truth. Thy sayinge is truth.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therfore and turne yt youre synnes maye be done awaye when the tyme of refresshinge commeth which we shall have of the presence of the Lorde
• Matt 4:16 : 16 ye people which sat in darknes sawe greate lyght and to them which sate in the region and shadowe of deeth lyght is begone to shyne.
• Matt 6:22-23 : 22 The light of the body is thyne eye. Wher fore if thyne eye besyngle all thy body shalbe full of light. 23 But and if thyne eye be wycked then all thy body shalbe full of derckenes. Wherfore yf the light that is in the be darckenes: how greate is that darckenes.
• Acts 9:17-18 : 17 Ananias went his waye and entryd into ye housse and put his hondes on him and sayde: brother Saul the LORde that apperyd vnto the in the waye as thou camst hath sent me that thou myghtest receave thy syght and be filled with the holy goost. 18 And immediatly ther fell from his eyes as it had bene scales and he receaved syght and arose and was baptised
• Acts 10:43 : 43 To him geve all the Prophetes witnes that thorowe his name shall receave remission of synnes all that beleve in him.
• Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Be it knowne vnto you therfore ye men and brethre that thorow this man is preached vnto you the forgevenes of synnes 39 and yt by him are all yt beleve iustified fro all thinges fro the which ye coulde not be iustified by ye lawe of Moses.
• Acts 13:47 : 47 For so hath the Lorde comaunded vs: I have made ye a light to the getyls yt thou be salvacio vnto ye ende of ye worlde.
• Acts 26:23 : 23 that Christ shulde suffre and that he shuld be the fyrst that shulde ryse from deeth and shuld shewe lyght vnto the people and the gentyls.
• Rom 4:6-9 : 6 Even as David describeth the blessedfulnes of the man vnto whom god ascribeth rihgtewesnes without dedes. 7 Blessed are they whose vnrightewesnes are forgeven and whose synnes are covered. 8 Blessed is that ma to whom the Lorde imputeth not synne. 9 Came this blessednes then vpon the circumcised or vpon the vncircucised? We saye verely how that fayth was rekened to Abraham for rightewesnes.
• Rom 5:1-2 : 1 Because therfore that we are iustified by fayth we are at peace with god thorow oure Lorde Iesue Christ: 2 by who we have awaye in thorow fayth vnto this grace wherin we stonde aud reioyce in hope of the prayse that shalbe geven of God.
• Rom 8:17 : 17 Yf we be sonnes we are also heyres the heyres I meane of God and heyres anexed with Christ: if so be that we suffer togedder that we maye be glorified to gedder.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 Vnto the congregacion of God which is at Corinthum. To them that are sanctified in Christ Iesu sainctes by callynge with all that call on the name of oure LORde Iesus Christ in every place both of theirs and of oures
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 And vnto him partayne ye in Christ Iesu which of God is made vnto vs wysdome and also rightewesnes and saunctifyinge and redempcion.
• 1 Cor 6:10-11 : 10 nether theves nether the coveteous nether dronkardes nether cursed speakers nether pillers shall inheret the kyngdome of God. 11 And soche ware ye verely: but ye are wesshed: ye are sanctified: ye are iustified by the name of the Lorde Iesus and by the sprete of oure God.